Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

Allow the power to flow through you. Don’t try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.